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Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock
Contributor(s): Cohen, Tom (Author), Cascardi, Anthony (Editor), Macksey, Richard (Editor)
ISBN: 0521465842     ISBN-13: 9780521465847
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $39.89  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 1994
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Annotation: Tom Cohen shows how, in an era of representational criticism and cultural studies, the role of close reading has been overlooked.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 401
LCCN: 93043559
Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.41" W x 8.43" (0.78 lbs) 284 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
The material elements of writing have long been undervalued; but analysis of these elements--sound, signature, letters--can transform our understanding of major texts. Tom Cohen argues in this book that in an era of representational criticism the role of close reading has been overlooked. Through astonishing new readings of writers such as Plato, Bakhtin, Poe, Whitman, and Conrad, Professor Cohen exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism, and demonstrates how the materiality of language challenges representational models of meaning imposed by the canon.